Adventures in astroimaging and miscellaneous nonsense by an amateur astronomer in East Texas.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Messier 35

I set up the mount and scope the other night to experiment with the alignment. Everything went faster than I expected, so I had time to do a little imaging. I got to wondering how how Messier 35 would turn out with the ST80.

Messier 35, ST80 on Vixen SP, 16x120

The smaller cluster to the lower-left is NGC 2158. It is much further away than M35.

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I am an amateur astronomer living on the edge of the Piney Woods near Huntsville, TX. In addition to my own modest telescopes, I have access to a Takahashi Epsilon-200 that I regularly use for imaging. Most of the images on this blog were taken using either a Canon EOS Rebel XS (1000D) or T3 (1100D) DSLR mounted on the Epsilon-200, but I also image using an inexpensive Orion ShortTube 80 on a Vixen Super Polaris mount.